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    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

    German polymath (1646–1716)

    "Leibniz" redirects here. For other uses, see Leibniz (disambiguation).

    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

    Bildnis des Philosophen Leibniz (1695), by Christoph Francke

    Born1 July 1646

    Leipzig, Holy Roman Empire

    Died14 November 1716(1716-11-14) (aged 70)

    Hanover, Holy Roman Empire

    Education
    Era17th-/18th-century philosophy
    RegionWestern philosophy
    School
    Theses
    Doctoral advisorB. L. von Schwendendörffer [de] (Dr. jur. thesis advisor)[6][7]
    Other academic advisors
    Notable students

    Main interests

    		Mathematics, physics, geology, medicine, biology, embryology, epidemiology, veterinary medicine, paleontology, psychology, engineering, librarianship, linguistics, philology, sociology, metaphysics, ethics, economics, diplomacy, history, politics, music theory, poetry, logic, theodicy, universal language, universal science

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    Western Philosophers
    Seventeenth-century philosophy
    (Modern Philosophy)

    Name: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
    Birth: July 2, 1646 (Leipzig, Germany)
    Death: November 14, 1716 (Hanover, Germany)
    School/tradition: Continental rationalism
    Main interests
    Metaphysics, epistemology, science, mathematics, theodicy
    Notable ideas
    Calculus, innate knowledge, optimism, monad
    Influences Influenced
    Plato, Aristotle, Ramon Llull, Scholastic philosophy, Rene Descartes, Christiaan HuygensMany later mathematicians, Christian Wolff, Immanuel Kant, Bertrand Russell, Abraham Robinson

    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (also Leibnitz or von Leibniz) (July 1, 1646 - November 14, 1716) was a German polymath, deemed a universal genius in his day and since. Educated in law and philosophy, and serving as factotum to two major German noble houses, Leibniz played a major role in the European politics and diplomacy of his day. His work touched on nearly every subject

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    Abraham de Moivre

    French mathematician (1667–1754)

    Abraham de MoivreFRS (French pronunciation:[abʁaamdəmwavʁ]; 26 May 1667 – 27 November 1754) was a French mathematician known for dem Moivre's formula, a formula that links complex numbers and trigonometry, and for his work on the normal transport and probability theory.

    He moved to England at a ung age due to the religious persecution of Huguenots in France which reached a climax in 1685 with the Edict of Fontainebleau.[1] He was a friend of Isaac Newton, Edmond Halley, and James Stirling. Among his fellow Huguenot exiles in England, he was a colleague of the editor and translator Pierre des Maizeaux.

    De Moivre wrote a book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, said to have been prized bygd gamblers. dem Moivre first discovered Binet's formula, the closed-form expression for Fibonacci numbers linking the nth power of the golden ratioφ to the nth Fibonacci number. He also